Indonesia using Triple J poll to justify Bali Nine executions

A Triple J SMS poll which found 52 percent of Australians, in principle, support death penalties for overseas drug traffickers could have sealed the fate of the Bali Nine ringleaders.

The lawyer for Sydney men Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who on Wednesday had a second judicial review of their case thrown out, said a "snap" poll commissioned by the radio station's Hack program had been quoted by the Indonesian government to justify sending the drug smugglers to the firing squad.

"The AG and the ambassador have publicly relied on the SMS poll as a factor justifying execution," Julian McMahon told the Sydney Morning Herald.

"They say that it pushes them to do it, that they have Australian public support."

About 2123 Australians cast their vote in the "yes" or "no" poll, which posed the question "In your opinion if an Australian is convicted of drug trafficking in another country and sentenced to death, should the penalty be carried out?"

The results were published in January under the headline "Australians think Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran should be executed", despite there being no mention of the two men's specific case in the Roy Morgan Research poll.

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Chan and Sukumaran's legal team applied for a second judicial review of their case on Friday, citing past errors of the law and their transformation over a decade in jail.

Despite the bid, Indonesian authorities continued planning for their execution, announcing on Wednesday that neither man's application would be accepted.

The Bali Nine ringleaders, who have been on death row since 2006, were named in the next round of executions.

It is understood they will be taken in the dead of the night from their cells in Kerobokan Prison in Denpasar and flown to Jogyakarta.

From there they will travel five hours through the villages and waters of Java en route to the notorious correctional centre on Nusa Kambangan, where they six drug criminals were executed two weeks ago, to meet their fate.